Life is good for Maura Corrigan. Married to her college sweetheart,
Pete, raising three young kids with her parents nearby in her peaceful
Chicago suburb, her world is secure. Then one day, in a single turn of
fate, that entire world comes crashing down and everything that she
thought she knew changes.

Maura must learn to move forward with
the weight of grief and the crushing guilt of an unforgivable secret.
Pete senses a gap growing between him and his wife but finds it easier
to escape to the bar with his friends than face the flaws in his
marriage.

Meanwhile, Maura's parents are dealing with the fault
lines in their own marriage. Charismatic Roger, who at sixty-five, is
still chasing the next business deal and Margaret, a pragmatic and
proud homemaker, have been married for four decades, seemingly happily.
But the truth is more complicated. Like Maura, Roger has secrets of his
own and when his deceptions and weaknesses are exposed, Margaret's love
and loyalty face the ultimate test.

New York in 1947 glows with post-war energy. Harry Copeland, an elite
paratrooper who fought behind enemy lines in Europe, returns home to
run the family business. In a single, magical encounter on the Staten
Island ferry, the young singer and heiress Catherine Thomas Hale falls
for him in an instant, too late to prevent her engagement to a much
older man. Harry and Catherine pursue one another in a romance played
out in postwar America's Broadway theaters, Long Island mansions, the
offices of financiers, and the haunts of gangsters. Catherine's choice
of Harry over her long-time fiancé endangers Harry’s livelihood and
eventually threatens his life.

During a party at the family farm in the English countryside, 16-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree
house and is dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the
road and sees her mother speak to him. Before the afternoon is over,
Laurel will witness a shocking crime that challenges everything she
knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothy.

Now, 50 years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded
actress, living in London. She returns to the family farm for Dorothy’s 90th birthday and finds herself overwhelmed by questions she has
not thought about for decades. From pre-WWII England through the Blitz,
to the 50s and beyond, discover the secret history of three
strangers from vastly different worlds—Dorothy, Vivien, and Jimmy—who
meet by chance in wartime London and whose lives are forever entwined.

For more than 30 years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid
family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are
splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's enormous girth.
She's obsessed with food--thinking about it, eating it--and if she
doesn't stop, she won't have much longer to live.

When Richard
abandons his wife, it is up to the next generation to take control.
Robin, their schoolteacher daughter, is determined that her father pay
for leaving Edie. Benny, an easy-going, pot-smoking family man, just
wants to smooth things over. And Rachelle-- a whippet thin
perfectionist-- is intent on saving her mother-in-law's life, but this
task proves even bigger than planning her twin children's spectacular
b'nai mitzvah party. Through it all, they wonder: do Edie's devastating
choices rest on her shoulders alone, or are others at fault, too?